Hunter Biden’s lawyers, prosecutors spar over evidence in pretrial hearing [Video]

Los Angeles — In a preliminary hearing held Wednesday, prosecutors in Hunter Biden’s federal tax case and his defense attorneys sparred over what evidence can be submitted as the case moves closer to its Sept. 5 start date. 

Mark Geragos, a new addition to Hunter Biden’s legal counsel, accused prosecutors of trying to turn the case into a “character assassination.” 

“If they want to try this case…on the facts, the evidence of the law, we’re very hopeful,” Geragos said. 

Prosecutors, meanwhile, moved to exclude references to the causes of Biden’s addiction, including the deaths of his biological mother and sister, while  District Judge Mark Scarsi appeared skeptical as to why the cause of his addiction was relevant to Biden’s defense. Central to the case is Biden’s struggle with substance abuse from 2016-2019, the period prosecutors allege he committed the tax offenses. 

Hunter Biden was charged with nine felony tax counts in a federal trial that comes on the heels of a felony gun convictionin Delaware …